Tractor mounted implement



W. H. SILVER ET'AL TRACTOR MOUNTED IMPLEMENT 3 Sheets-Sheet L Fild June 15, 1946 INVENTORS WALTER H. SILVER W. H. SILVER ET AL TRACTOR MOUNTED IMPLEMENT Dec. '9, 1952 '3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed June 15, 1946 INVENTORS WALTER H. SILVER Patented Dec. 9, 1952 TRACTOR MOUNTED IMPLEMENT Walter H. Silver, Molina lll 'and William v. f Lohrman, Davenport, Iowa, assignors to Deere & Company, Moline, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application June 15, 194

7 Claims. (CI. 97-47) The present invention relates generally to ag- "ricultural implements and moreparticularly to ground working tools, such as plows, listers, middlebreakers and the like.

'The object and general nature of the present invention is the provision of a tractor mounted implement, such as a lister, especially constructed and arranged to be easily and quickly shifted laterally of the tractor to bring the ground working tool into a position adjacent one or the other of the rear wheels of the tractor. An arrangement of this kind is very desirable when the implement is mounted on one of the smaller type tractors where the rear wheels are usually incapable of being adjusted sufficiently farapart to span the distance between two rows, as when blanking or listing, in which case it is necessary to have both of the rear tractor wheels run on the unworked land and to shift the lister bottom relative to the tractor laterally over into a position a desired distance from the last row previously worked. The present invention achieves this result in a novel and expeditious manner.

' Another important feature of this invention is the provision of an implement of this kind which 'canbe easily and quickly attached to or detached v fromithe propelling tractor, and it is a further feature of this invention to provide new and improved means whereby the lateral shifting of the .tool may be easily and quickly accomplished by a means which is detached or attached with the implement but which is readily accessible to the operator of the tractor when the implement is properly connected in operative relation with the tractor.

These and other objects and advantages of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art after a consideration of thefollowing detailed description, take in conjunction with'the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side view of a tractor mounted implement in which the principles of the present invention have been incorporated;

Figure 2 is a plan view of the implement shown iirFigure 1; and

Figure 3 is a rear view.

Referring'now to the drawings, the reference numeral I indicates a farm tractor having front dirigible wheels and rear traction wheels 2 fixed, as by clamps, to axle means 5 and 6. The tractor includes a power plant 1 and a power lift unit 8 of the hydraulic type, having suitable valve mechanism V and other necessary parts for controlling the operation of a power lift shaft 9; A pair of lift arms II! are fixed to the rockshaft 9 and extend rearwardly, and the rear ends of the .3I and 32.

6, SerialNo. 576,870

2 lift arms II are connected bylinks l2 to lugs l3 formedon the side members I4 of a generally vertically swingable tractor drawbar or bail member I5. The latter is preferably in the form of a U-shaped member, considered as a whole, and includes a reartransverse section l6 which may be formed'of round stock. The sides l4 may be strap members, and the latter are pivoted at their front ends, as at 11, to the drop housings I8 which form a part of the. tractor rear axle structure I9. Preferably, the rear part l6 of the tractor drawbar is welded or otherwise. permanently secured to the side members [4. When the valve V is in a neutral position, the rockshaft 9 is locked hydraulically against movement in a direction to permit the drawbar l5 to lower, and when the valve V is moved in one direction the drawbar l5 may be lowered, and when the valve V is-moved in the other direction fluid under power is directed into the cylinder forming a part of the unit 8 for swinging the lift arms ll upwardly, thus acting through the links 12 for raising the tractor drawbar I5;

One of the implements that may readily and. quickly be attached to and detached from the tractor I is a two bottom lister, indicated in its entirety by the reference numeral 30. The implement 30 includes a tool bar 3| extending generally longitudinally of the tractor and a part in the form of a transverse attaching bar 32 which is rigidly fixed to the rear portion of the tool bar 3|, as by a pair of lugs 33 welded to the tool bars These bars constitute a ,tool beam, the rear portion 34 of which curves downwardly and receives a ground working tool in the form of a lister bottom 35. The latter preferably is fixed to a pair of standards 31 which are pivotally connected, as at 38, to the lower end of the tool beam portion 34, and the lister bottom 35 is, in

turn, pivotally connected, as at 39, to the lower ends of'the standards 3?. Suitable overload release linkage 4! is employed for holding the lister bottom 35 in operative position against all nor- 'mal loads. 'The standards 3'! are adjustably fixed in'position relative to the tool beam by means of a threaded link 45 pivotally connected at 46 to a pair of lugs 41 carried bythe rear portion of the tool bar 3|, the threaded portion of the connecting link 45 extending through a swivel member 48 which is pivoted at49 to the upper ends of the standards 31. A pair of lock nuts 5| serve to lock the swivel 48 on the link 45, and by loosening the lock nuts 5| and turning one or the other, the pointor nose of the lister bottom 35 may be raised or lowered in order to adjust th amount of suck.

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In addition to the power lift unit 8 and associated parts described above, the tractor I includes a generally vertically arranged forwardly disposed bar-receiving bail 6|. This member constitutes a vertically shiftable part and preferably is in the form of a U-shaped part pivotally connected, as at 62, to the rear ends of a pair of arms 63 that are fixed at their forward ends to a transverse shaft member 64, and the lower central portion of the bail constitutes a tool beam receiving section which, as best shown in Figure 3, extends laterally and along which the forward portion of the beam 3| is shiftable generally from one side of the tractor to the other. The shaft member 64 includes one or more arm extensions 65 and is mounted for rocking movement in a pair of attaching plates 66 which, while normally detachable from the tractor I, usually is carried by the tractor. The upper end of each of the arm extensions 65 is pivoted, as at I0, to the forward end of a link6I,

the rear end of which is pivoted at 68 to an arm or bracket 69 that is fixed to the adjacent forward portion of the tractor drawbar I5. Thus, whenever the drawbar I is raised or lowered, the vertically shiftable bail 6| is also raised'and lowered, approximately the same amount. It will be noted that the front end of the tool bar 3| rests loosely in the bail 6i and that when detaching the implement 30, the front end of the tool bar 3! may readily be withdrawn from the bail 6 I. g

The transverse section I6 of the tractor drawbar bail I5 is provided with a forwardly extending lug I5 which has an aperture at its forward end to receive a quick detachable pin 16 that is adapted to be inserted through openings in the forward ends of upper and lower attaching lugs 11 and 18 which are fixed to a generally transversely arranged attaching member 89. The latter member includes a part in the form of a U- shaped drawbar-receiving saddle section BI having a forwardly facing socket adapted to receive the drawbar section I6, the apertured forwardly extending lugs I1 and 78 being welded to the forward flanges of the U-shaped member BI. Generally rearwardly extending U-shaped lugs 84 and 85 are welded to the rear side of the socket member BI, and these lugs 84 and 85 form a pair of laterally spaced rearwardly facing socket sections adapted to pivotally receive the transverse bar 32 forming apart of the tool beam. Quick detachable pins, similar to the pin 76 mentioned above, may. be employed for releasably holding the transverse bar in the laterally spaced socket sections 6 1 and 85, but preferably, we employ bolts 86 and rollers 81, as best shown in Fig- The attaching bar 32 constitutes a member that is shiftably mounted on the tractor drawbar through the attaching member 80, and these members, together with associated parts, constitute means for mounting the rear portion of the tool bar or tool beam on the tractor drawbar for lateral shifting movement relative thereto. More specifically, the socket member 8|, the

pin I6, and associated parts constitute means for detachably connecting the transverse bar 32 with the tractor drawbar I5.

A bracket 90 is carried by the attaching vmember 80, the bracket 90 consisting of a U-shaped part welded to the upper flange of the member BI and to the upper lug TI, as best shown in Figure 2. Secured, as by welding, to the bracket 90 is a rearwardly extending stub shaft 94, and a .4 sleeve 95 is mounted for rocking movement on the stub shaft 94. A hand lever 96 is secured, as by welding, to the rear portion of the sleeve 95, and the hand lever 96 carries conventional detent mechanism 9! which operates in conjunction with a notched sector 98 that is welded or otherwise fixed to the rear end of the stub shaft 94. The hand lever 96, as best shown in Figure 3, comprises two hand lever sections IOI and I02, each having detent mechanism 91 and a. detent pawl I03. A hand grip I04 is mounted on each of the hand lever sections ml and I02 and is link connected to operate the associated pawl I03. The sector 98 that is fixed to the stub shaft 94 is provided with two notched sections I07 and I08, separated by a dwell portion [09 which is even with or below the bottoms of the notches I01 and I08. This dwell portion I09 has an angular extent that corresponds to the angle between the two lever sections IOI and I02, it being understood that these sections are rigidly connected together, as by being welded toa plate III (Figure 1), that is fixed to the sleeve 94. A toothed member I I5, preferably in the form of a segment of a sprocket gear or the equivalent, is fixed, as by welding, to the forward portion of the sleeve 95 and receives a transversely arranged sprocket chain N1, the ends of which are engaged into hook sections IIB formed on collars II9 that are secured, as :by set screws I2I, .to the outer ends, respectively, of the transverse tool beam bar 32. As best shown in Figure 3, when the beams 3|, 32 are in a neutral position, which positions the lister bottom 35 in a middle position between the two tractor wheels 2, the two detents I03 of the two hand lever sections IM and I02 lie in the dwell portion I09 of the sector 98, immediately adjacent the two sets of notches I01 and I08. If it should be desired to shift the lister bottom either in one direction or the other, one or the other of the hand lever sections 'IOI and I02 is grasped, the associated hand grip 104 depressed to withdraw the associated detent I03, after which the hand lever section may be swung downwardly, and in so doing the gear sector H5 is swung in that direction, thus shifting the chain I I 1 and effecting a'transverse adjustment of the plow beams (H, 32, the transverse bar 32 shifting laterally in the laterally spaced apart sections 84 and 85. The hand lever96 thus constitutes a part that is supported on the tractor drawbar through the attaching member and is connected through the chain II! and associated parts with the tool beam. Thus, the member H5 and the chain I, together with associated parts, constitute motion transmitting means extending between the hand lever 96 and the tool beam 3I for shifting the latter relative to the tractor drawbar and bail.

Figure 1 shows the implement in operating position, and the depth of operation may be increased or decreased by suitable manipulations of the valve V, which lower both the forward bail GI and the tractor drawbar I5. When it is desired to raise the implement into a transport position, it is not necessary to restore the plow beam to its intermediate position, as shown in Figure 3, it being necessary merely to operate the valve V and cause the power lift unit 8 to raise the tractor drawbar I5, which also effects a raising of the bail 6I through the linkage 63, 65 and 61. Upward movement of the bail 6| serves to rock the tool beam 3| relative to the attaching member 80 on the tractor drawbar I5, the attaching bar 32 rocking in the lugs 84 and 85.

- While we have shown and described above the preferred structure in which the principles of the present invention have been incorporated, it is to be understood that our invention is not to be limited to the particular details shown and described above, but that, in fact, widely different means may be employed in the practice of the broader aspects of our invention.

What we claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a tractor having a rear vertically shiftable drawbar and a forward vertically shiftable part, of an agricultural implement comprising a tool bar extending generally longitudinally of the tractor, a transverse attaching bar fixed thereto, means on the vertically shiftable part to receive and support the forward end of said tool bar, a support shiftably receiving said transverse bar, means detachably connecting said support with said tractor drawbar, and a part movable on said support and connected with said transverse bar for shifting the latter and said tool bar laterally of the tractor.

2. An agricultural implement adapted to be connected with a tractor having a rear vertically swingable drawbar and means for swinging said drawbar, said implement comprising a support adapted to be detachably connected with said drawbar and including forwardly extending upper and lower sections adapted to embrace said drawbar, attaching means connecting said sections forward of said drawbar for detachably connecting said support with said drawbar, said support also including a pair of rearwardly extending laterally spaced bar-receiving guides, a bar rookable and slidable in said guides and extending transversely thereof, means carried by said support for releasably holding said bar in said guides, at ground working tool carried by said bar, means carried by said support and connected with said bar for shifting the same laterally, and means connected with the ground working tool for rocking the latter and said bar relative to said drawbar-carried support.

3. An agricultural implement comprising a support including a pair of laterally spaced barreceiving guides, a bar slidable in said guides and extending transversely thereof, a bracket on said support having a rearwardly extending stub shaft, a sleeve mounted for rocking movement thereon, a toothed member fixed to the forward end of said sleeve, means connected with the rear end of said sleeve for rocking said sleeve and said toothed member, and a chain trained over said toothed member and connected at its opposite ends, respectively, with the opposite ends of slidable bar.

4. An agricultural implement comprising a generally longitudinally extending tool bar, a transverse bar fixed thereto, an attaching member comprising a part slidably receiving said transverse bar, a bracket fixed to said attaching member, a stub shaft fixed to said bracket, a notched sector fixed to said stub shaft, a sleeve mounted for rotation on said stub shaft, a toothed member fixed to the forward portion of said sleeve, sprocket chain means trained over said toothed member and connected at its opposite ends with said transverse bar, and lever and detent means connected with the rear portion of said sleeve and cooperating with said notched sector for adjustably fixing the lateral position of said tool bar relative to said attaching member.

5. An agricultural implement comprising a generally longitudinally extending tool bar, a transverse bar fixed thereto, an attaching member comprising a, part slidably receiving said transverse bar, a bracket fixed to said attaching member, a part rockably mounted on said bracket, and motion-transmitting means connected with said part and with said transverse bar at opposite ends thereof for adjusting the lateral position of said tool bar relative to said attaching member.

6. In combination, a tractor having a rear drawbar and a forwardly disposed bail, the latter having a laterally extending section and the drawbar having a transverse section disposed rearwardly of said bail section, a generally longitudinally extending tool bar having its forward end carried to lateral movement on the laterally extending section of said bail, a transvers bar on the rear portion of said tool bar, a mounting member slidably receiving said transverse bar and adapted to be connected to the transverse section of the tractor drawbar, and means on said mounting member and connected with said transverse bar for shifting said tool bar laterally relative to said mounting member and said forwardly disposed bail.

7. In combination, a tractor having a rear drawbar and a forward bail, both generally vertically swingable, a ground working implement comprising a tool beam adapted to be disposed longitudinally of the tractor with its forward end received by and shiftable laterally relative to said bail, an attaching member receiving said tool beam for lateral shifting relative to said member, drawbar-receiving means on said attaching member, and means releasably connecting said drawbar-receiving means to the tractor drawbar, a laterally swingable lever mounted on said drawbar-receiving means, and motion-transmitting means extending between said lever and said tool beam, whereby movement of said lever serves to shift said tool beam relative to said tractor bail and said drawbar.

WALTER H. SILVER. WILLIAM V. LOI-IRMAN.

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